Lost decisions in architecture are under record: New article from Asst. Prof. Dr. Kadir Öz and Asst. Prof. Dr. Meliha Havva Öz

Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), continues to make a global impression through the scientific studies carried out by its academic staff at the international level. The research conducted by the Head of the Department of Interior Architecture, Asst. Prof. Dr. Kadir Öz, and Faculty Member of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Asst. Prof. Dr. Meliha Havva Öz, was published in the special issue of Buildings magazine—which is indexed in Scopus Q1 and Web of Science (WoS) Q1 (Architecture)  "Digital Workflows in AEC: From Conceptual Design to Constructed Reality", thereby taking its place in the literature.

"The Reasons Why Eliminated Design Alternatives Are Rejected Fail From Memories"

The published study, titled "Making Rejected and Non-Selected Architectural Design Decisions Traceable: A Decision/Memory Model", focuses on a crucial deficiency of BIM-integrated projects in modern architectural practices.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Kadir Öz and Asst. Prof. Dr. Meliha Havva Öz aim to recover these lost decision traces with the conceptually derived and analytically evaluated recording artifact (model) they developed. Stepping in during the phase-transition band from spatial coordination to technical design, this model separates codified screening from stakeholder-mediated reviews by using a two-gate evaluation logic. Defining three basic types of information loss in design processes (pre-stakeholder invisible loss, trace/version loss, and post-stakeholder visible loss), the study protects the "rationales" behind architectural decisions and institutional memory.